John P. Meier

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1. Raymond E. Brown

   Author of An Introduction to the New Testament, Birth of the Messiah, The Community of the Beloved Disciple: The Life, Loves and Hates of an Individual Church in New Testament Times

2. John P. Meier

   Author of A Marginal Jew : Rethinking the Historical Jesus. Volume One, The Roots of the Problem and the Person, Mentor, Message, and Miracles (A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus, Volume 2), Companions and Competitors (A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus, Volume 3)

3. Joseph A. Fitzmyer

   Author of The Gospel According to Luke I-IX: Introduction, Translation, and Notes (The Anchor Bible, Vol. 28), Romans (Anchor Bible), A Christological Catechism: New Testament Answers

4. E. P. Sanders

   Author of The Historical Figure of Jesus, Paul the Law and the Jewish People, Studying the Synoptic Gospels

5. James D. G. Dunn

   Author of The Theology of Paul the Apostle, Christology in the Making: A New Testament Inquiry Into the Origins of the Doctrine of the Incarnation, Jesus Remembered

6. James H. Charlesworth

   Author of The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha, Vol. 1: Apocalyptic Literature and Testaments, The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha, Vol. 2: Expansions of the Old Testament and Legends, Wisdom and Philosophical Literature, Prayers, Psalms, and Odes, Fragments of Lost Judeo-Hellenistic works, Jesus and the Dead Sea Scrolls (Anchor Bible Reference)

7. John Dominic Crossan

   Author of The Historical Jesus, Who Killed Jesus?: Exposing the Roots of Anti-Semitism in the Gospel Story of the Death of Jesus

8. Joachim Jeremias

   Author of The Parables of Jesus, Jerusalem in the Time of Jesus: An Investigation into Economic & Social Conditions During the New Testament Period, The Eucharistic Words of Jesus

9. Dale C. Allison

   Author of Jesus of Nazareth: Millenarian Prophet, Resurrecting Jesus: The Earliest Christian Tradition And Its Interpreters (Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha S

10. Martin Hengel

    Author of Four Gospels and the One Gospel of Jesus Christ, Studies in Early Christology

11. Ben Witherington, III

    Author of The Jesus Quest: The Third Search for the Jew of Nazareth, The Indelible Image: The Theological and Ethical World of the New Testament, Vol. 1: The Individual Witnesses

12. John Joseph Collins

    Author of The Apocalyptic Imagination, The Scepter and the Star (Anchor Bible Reference), The Eerdmans Dictionary of Early Judaism

13. Werner Georg Kümmel

    Author of Introduction to the New Testament, The New Testament: The history of the investigation of its problems

14. Adela Yarbro Collins

    Author of Mark: A Commentary (Hermeneia: a Critical and Historical Commentary on the Bible), King and Messiah as Son of God: Divine, Human, and Angelic Messianic Figures in Biblical and Related Literature, The Beginning of the Gospel: Probings of Mark in Context

15. Luke Timothy Johnson

    Author of The Real Jesus, Among the Gentiles: Greco-Roman Religion and Christianity (The Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library)

16. Wayne A. Meeks

    Author of The First Urban Christians: The Social World of the Apostle Paul, The Moral World of the First Christians (Library of Early Christianity, Vol 6)

17. Abraham J. Malherbe

    Author of The Letters to the Thessalonians: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary (Anchor Bible)

18. Jerome Murphy-O'Connor

    Author of Paul: A Critical Life

19. N. T. Wright

    Author of The Resurrection of the Son of God

20. David L. Dungan

    Author of A History of the Synoptic Problem: The Canon, the Text, the Composition, and the Interpretation of the Gospels (The Anch